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| Trick Or Treat? [Sketch] by Karen Fitzsimmons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Esme has gone to the doctor for some help - she's being plagued by a vampire that only she can see. And this is no sexy teen vamp, it's a Bela Lugosi-style Prince of Darkness who is, frankly, annoying. The solution is pricey, but we can be pretty sure that it'll work.. |
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| The Trip by Jonathan Caldicot |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. The characters are all members of a high school class, and intended to be played by teenagers. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play for a large cast of teenagers. Simple props, essentially a bare stage, except for a stone cairn! Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Twenty teenagers are on an outward bound-style field trip as a team-building exercise, but when they all reach the rendezvous point, the teacher is not there to meet them with the bus. Have the brain-boxes been reading the maps wrong? With the one cell phone lost, can they work out a solution before night falls? |
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| Unbitten by Caroline Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short one act drama for teenagers with a simple, or no set. |
| Synopsis | A powerful metaphorical play using vampires to act out some difficult, angst ridden problems facing most young people, particularly girls, encountering puberty. |
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Underground by Jon Boustead
Production by Tykes won Best Youth Production (Teignmouth Drama Festival, 2017) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. All cast should be of same or similar age. |
| Run Time | Around 22 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act thriller for youth theatre, with a single - crashed Tube train carriage - setting. |
| Synopsis | A group of youth-age children on a school outing are left to fend for themselves, as they find themselves trapped in a crashed tube train and their teachers are nowhere to be found. They all have to deal with the horror in their own way and they take the plot along through intermittent narration and action. |
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Urban Hymns by Keith Badham
Performance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Best Youth Actress award in the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 65. No chorus. The nine scripts have casts ranging from two to twenty, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is six. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nine short scripts:
Introduction (Nominally twenty roles)
Bittersweet Symphony (Seven roles)
The Drugs Don't Work (Four roles)
Sonnet (Four roles)
Juliet (Two roles)
Romeo (Two roles)
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Five roles)
24 Minutes From Tulse Hill (Six roles)
Lucky (Nominally 15 roles) |
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| Vamping It Up by Jonathan Edgington |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two vampires and a human. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short play, set in a cemetary. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Vince and Vernon have just got up - it's sundown, and they're breakfasting on synthetic blood. It's raining and the nightclub has started up early, and, to cap it all Vanessa's party has been cancelled because she turned to ashes that morning. But here comes Veronica to cheer them up! |
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| A Vampire Play by Graham Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Characters are four teenagers and one adult. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short play with a gothic heart. (Muahahahaaa!) |
| Synopsis | Four girls gather in a forgotten garden shed to await a present promised to one of them by a boy who may or may not be a vampire. But beware, nothing is quite what it seems... |
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| Visitors by Heather Bryant |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Two vampires (1M, 1F) and an elderly lady. |
| Run Time | Around 5 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy sketch for teenagers. Part of the Bite Size collection of Vampire plays |
| Synopsis | Doris is enjoying a quiet night in front of the TV when two vampires burst in! Why doesn't she quake with fear and scream in terror? Well, Doris has a little secret that she might tell Vic and Vyla...as long as they promise not to laugh. |
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| The Waiting Room by John Waterhouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length play for a youth theatre company. |
| Synopsis | Becky is surprised to find herself in the afterlife, following a fall from a cliff. Since she died so young, she is offered the chance to return to the world for five 'experiences' that will round out her life before she moves on. |
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| The War Time by Seán Lang |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 12. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children intended to be played by a youth theatre company. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Ensemble piece for secondary schools, exploring the First World War. Multiple locations, mainly indicated by lighting and furniture. |
| Synopsis | A group of schoolchildren visit war graves in Belgium, but some have trouble connecting with the idea that the soldiers were real people, because it happened so long ago. Beth and Danny meet the Recollector, who takes them back in time and places them in the war, helping them understand. |
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